# wish lists

Matthew Hapke (mahapke@adsnet.com)
Wed, 24 Jul 1996 20:19:35 PDT

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    At 12:50 PM 7/23/96 PDT, you wrote:
    >On Tue, 23 Jul 1996 dg@dcs.st-and.ac.uk wrote:
    >
    >> Two things I'd like to see that would make coding much simpler and ehance
    the
    >> OO features of the language are:
    >>
    >> a) allowing verbs to be called with the . operator instead of : operator,
    >>    i.e. object.verb(args)
    >
    >Hmm... I don't really think this will simplify the MOO language. Two
    >different operators ( : and . ) which do the same and at the same time one
    >operator ( . ) which does two different things is not a good idea imho.
    Also, with a for all practical purposes interpretted OOP system like moo,
    doesn't an addition like this also add to the parser's problems, and slow it
    down a bit? I would think so...Maybe not by much, but every little bit
    counts when there are fifty people online...